Disruptive Empathy

Disruptive Empathy

Disruptive Empathy Must Also Be Sustainable

The soul price of indispensability

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Eric Near
Nov 20, 2025
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The technology sector (especially the modern startup culture) has long confused dedication with existential sacrifice. We worship the founder who sleeps under the desk and celebrate the engineer who fixes the catastrophic outage at three in the morning (we’ve all been there, and yes, sometimes it’s necessary). We use language like “we bleed for the prod…

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